To Appeal or Not to Appeal - That is the Question

[Whiskyman]

Why doesn't the FA implement a rule, if someone blatantly dives or flops during a game they get an automatic one match ban. If the dive fools the ref into giving a penalty or red card in error then dish out a 3 match ban without pay. Maybe that will stamp out this s.hit from the game.

F. Ucking frustrating, just when Carroll starts to get some games under his belt, this happens , right in front of a key stretch of 3 tough but winnable games. We just can't seem to catch a f.ucking break, all year we've had a run of bad fortune. Has to change at some point surely!

There's no need to implement a rule. There's already one in place about "ungentlemanly conduct". It is up to the referee to enforce the rule.

But the F A employ referees who clearly don't even know the laws of the game. Two relatively recent incidents prove this. The beach ball incident in a Sunderland v Liverpool game a year or so back and the goal that Eto'o scored

[nocturnal]

Laudrup, fair play to him has said live on tv it was not a red card,
1 match ban imo.

Well if not a red card then why any ban at all??????[/quote]because he did lash out, just didn't connect![/quote]
erm lash out?? more a case of momentum from the cheetarito spinning him around

[CALI66HAMMER]

Laudrup, fair play to him has said live on tv it was not a red card,
1 match ban imo.

Well if not a red card then why any ban at all??????[/quote]because he did lash out, just didn't connect![/quote]

I don't see his arm movement as "lashing out". It seemed, on tv at least, to be a natural arm mnovement. It didn't appear to be done with great force. Carroll is a big lump and I think if he'd meant it then Flores would have been sparko and not able to do the multi roll drama queen act he did.

Certainly no a red imo. Possibly a yellow, on the grounds of being "dangerous". No way can any appeal be seen as "fatuous", which means an extra game ban, so nothing to lose.

When the opposition manager says it's not a red card then take it to the wire.[/quote]



Good afternoon Whisky,

I'm not tal

[Ironworks1]

Didn't see the incident at the game but, from the replay, it's quite clearly not a red card. It's not even a booking.

What a horrible, cheating c unt Flores is.

I hope Webb watches that and does the decent thing and admit he or his linesman or both of them got it wrong.

Shame - I thought he ruffed it quite well other than that.

[Hammer4life]

I was sat not far from it. I thought it was a blatant red card at the time even though Chico behaved like a total coward. Having seen the replay now it looks like it was not intentional and Carroll's momentum swung his hand around. I can see how the ref was conned. We are going to appeal. 3 points gained and Carroll available for the next game!

[dagenhamJohn]

Didn't see the incident at the game but, from the replay, it's quite clearly not a red card. It's not even a booking.

What a horrible, cheating c unt Flores is.

I hope Webb watches that and does the decent thing and admit he or his linesman or both of them got it wrong.

Shame - I thought he ruffed it quite well other than that.

how do's mate, personally was AWOL today
what was the atmosphere like?

[BillyDWhizz]

If the ban stands and Carroll gets shafted for 3 games and it costs us our PL status, we can always sue the ring piece outta Howard Webb thanks to the blunts and the precedent they set.

[Ironworks1]

Didn't see the incident at the game but, from the replay, it's quite clearly not a red card. It's not even a booking.

What a horrible, cheating c unt Flores is.

I hope Webb watches that and does the decent thing and admit he or his linesman or both of them got it wrong.

Shame - I thought he ruffed it quite well other than that.

how do's mate, personally was AWOL today
what was the atmosphere like?[/quote]

Evening John

Atmosphere much the same as always - maybe upped a bit after the offing.

Flores became the pantomime villain

He took over from Shelvey who had the usual Harry Potter song aimed at him

One obvious thing was how utterly s hit Swansea were. Have we ever been so comfortable with 10 men?

Glad we didn't get Bony for 13 mill too - proper sulker

[JimmyV66]

Was going to ask this earlier, what was the Harry Potter song about. Not seen any of the films btw.


Thought the atmospehre was pretty good.

[palerider]

Was going to ask this earlier, what was the Harry Potter song about. Not seen any of the films btw.


Thought the atmospehre was pretty good.

The villain of the Harry Potter films is called Valdermort. Shelvey's a dead-ringer.